Governance and ownership statement

Status: Draft — counsel review required
Version: 0.1.0-draft
Last-updated: 2026-07-20

1. What TUNES is

TUNES (Transit User Noise Experience Survey) is an independent, London-first public programme collecting passenger perceptions and derived measurements of noise on ordinary rail journeys, and publishing an open methodology with versioned datasets.

2. Independence

TUNES is not operated, approved, or endorsed by Transport for London or any other transport operator. Professional practice notes (including materials obtained via FOI) may inform methodology as references only — not as affiliation or redistributable operator data.

3. Ownership of repositories and releases

Asset	Owner repo / party
Charter, ADRs, research, methodology, schema docs, open dataset releases	`tunes` programme (controller / future CLG)
iOS recorder product	`tunes-ios`
Landing, map, pipeline	`tunes-web`

Code and data licences are provisional until legal review (see ADR-012). Planning assumption: MIT (app code) + CC BY 4.0 (docs/public data).

4. Who controls personal data

Controller: Hao-Tsun Kuo (until CLG incorporation)
Contact: manglekuo@gmail.com

Entity form follows ADR-013: informal named controller(s) until incorporation triggers; then a company limited by guarantee. CIC is optional later for funder asset-lock needs.

5. How decisions are made

Binding scientific and programme decisions are recorded as ADRs in tunes and summarised in the decision log. Day-to-day product work in tunes-ios / tunes-web must not contradict accepted ADRs (especially privacy defaults and claim language).

6. Community conduct

See the code of conduct outline and moderation policy. A full CoC will be adopted before public community launch.

7. Contact

General: manglekuo@gmail.com
Reports / takedown: manglekuo@gmail.com

Draft only — not lawyer-approved.